¡Buenos dias! Substantial breaks in the high cloud cover yesterday allowed our local thermal to produce a great day, with winds at the campground averaging 16-20 mph for around 6 hours straight, peaking at 22 mph around 2 pm. An Oceansat satellite pass late last evening measured NW winds of 15 knots over the Sea of Cortez just east of Cerralvo, but all of the latest numerical model forecasts show decreasing northwest background wind today. While all models show the winds decreasing, several do show just enough will remain and combine with sunny skies to jump start our local wind machine. A slow-moving storm system will affect southern California on Tuesday, then move into Arizona on Wednesday. The latest model forecasts show the effects of this system may stay far enough to our north to allow just enough north background flow to remain tomorrow, and possibly into Wednesday. As that system moves eastward, a ridge of high pressure located near us will retreat northward on Thursday and allow our north winds to increase. At this point it looks like we’ll see just enough north background flow remaining into Friday to give us another windy afternoon. Long-range model forecasts show a stronger storm system will move into the northern Baja Peninsula on Saturday, then continue eastward into northwestern Sonora on Sunday. Flow around this system will likely give us a significant west component to our background flow both Saturday and Sunday.
- Today..Sunny. North wind 16-18 mph.
- Tuesday…Sunny. North wind 16-18 mph.
- Wednesday…Mostly sunny. North wind 14-16 mph.
- Thursday…Sunny. North wind 18-22 mph.
- Friday…Sunny. North wind 16-18 mph.
- Saturday…Sunny. Northwest wind 8-10 mph.
- Sunday…Sunny. Northwest wind 10-12 mph.